Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on an openrc system

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday, 28 September 2022 12:05:19 BST Nils Freydank wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> long story short: AFAICT it's a deprecated or moved configuration entry
> inside the file /etc/machine-info and should be safe to just delete, maybe
> even with the whole file machine-info itself.
> 
> On my machine with openrc and systemd-boot I don't even have
> /etc/machine-info at all and things work fine together. To me it looks as
> the variable was just thrown out of the machine-info file and in case you
> would need it you should put it into /etc/kernel/install.conf.
> 
> I don't know which software uses the string. If you compile your kernel
> manually or using the gentoo-kernel packages it seems to be not necessary.
> 
> (But as always when taking advice from strangers on the internet: First make
> a backup, have a live medium for recovery at hand and test it yourself.)

Thanks Nils.

Looking more carefully, I see only one machine has an /etc/machine-info. I've 
moved it and I no longer get the warning. Simple as that, eh?

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Regards,
Peter.